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Page 115 - We wish a joyful growth to the roses and flowers of our garden ; we hope for health and peaceful thoughts to further our aims. The roses, indeed, are still in part to be planted, but they blossom already in anticipation. Two ponies which carry us everywhere, and the mountain air, are the best medicines for weak nerves. This daily exercise, to which I am much devoted, is my only recreation ; for this nook of ours is the loneliest in Britain, six miles removed from any one likely to visit me. Here...
Page 288 - In the spring of this year he again visited Granada, and resided some three months in the Alhambra, where he collected materials for the work published under that name in 1832. In July he went to England, being appointed secretary of legation to the American embassy in London, which office he held until the return of Mr.
Page 268 - ... law at Nashville. It was about this time that he began his political life. After holding several minor offices in Tennessee, he was, in 1823, elected to Congress, and continued a member of that body until, in 1827, he became Governor of the state of Tennessee. In 1829, before the expiration of his gubernatorial term, he resigned his office, and went to take up his abode among the Cherokees in Arkansas. During his residence among the Indians he became acquainted with the frauds practised upon...
Page 134 - His industry, his boldness and acuteness in debate, combined with great power of ridicule and complete mastery of details, made him an invaluable member of his party, and marked him out for higher office in some future Tory cabinet. It was, however, his misfortune, that his uncommon shrewdness failed to appreciate either the state of the nation or the true policy of Conservatism; for, in the moment of the passing of the...
Page 51 - a great revolution begins at this moment The nephew of the emperor is before you. He comes to put himself at your head. He is arrived on the French soil to restore to France her glory and her liberty. It is now to conquer or to die for a great cause — the cause of the people. Soldiers of the 4th regiment of artillery, may the emperor's nephew count on you !' The shout which followed this brief appeal nearly stunned me.
Page 479 - Letters on the Ministry, Ritual, and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Page 119 - Indian tribes in that region of country. He conducted with success the affairs of the Territory under embarrassing circumstances. Under his sway peace was preserved between the whites and the treacherous and disaffected Indians, law and order established, and the Territory rapidly advanced in population, resources, and prosperity. He held this position till July, 1831, when he was, by President Jackson, made Secretary of War.
Page 450 - ... subject, and partly from confidence in the intentions of the cabinet to effect something in the same direction. In 1828, he proposed a measure for the repeal of the test acts, which was carried in the commons, but only passed the lords after most illiberal mutilations. In February, 1830, he moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable the towns of, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, to return members to parliament; but his motion was lost by a majority of 48 — ayes, 140; noes, 188.
Page 19 - Immediately on leaving college, he entered the law office of his brother, Mr. John Anthon ; and in 1819, was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the state of New York. While a student of law, Mr. Anthon applied himself...
Page 111 - He occupied himself during this interval before taking his seat in acquiring a knowledge of the language and literature of Spain. Immediately after he appeared in the Senate, he took a prominent part in the deliberations of that body, and rapidly rose to eminence and distinction. Few public measures were discussed between the years 1821 and 1851 that he did not participate in largely, and the influence he wielded was always felt and confessed by the country. He was one...